Today in hockey history, a team (that isn’t the Blue Jackets) gets blown out 47-0, an ironman streak comes to an end, a very notable hockey personality sets a Coyotes record, and the Mighty Ducks set a record by winning a ridiculous amount of close games.
February 12, 1949 – Canada beat Denmark 47-0 in the most lopsided international hockey game in history to that day, happening during the World Championships, which Canada won. Not as bad as the 82-0 thrashing the Slovakian women’s team handed the new team, Bulgaria, in 2008. Or the 92-0 beatdown the South Korea gave Thailand in the 1998 men’s Asia -Oceania U18 Championships (who knew they had hockey there). And an honorable mention to the 2006 Iceland-Armenia game (that damned Gunnar Stahl!) where big bad Iceland won 50-0. Check out the box score of that game, too, where sniper Emil Alengard picked up nine goals and six assists with 33 shots, giving him a +15 for the night.
February 12, 1983 – After playing in an NHL record of 776 consecutive games with the same team, the Buffalo Sabres, Craig Ramsay missed his first game in almost 10 years, resulting from a broken bone in his that came foot two nights earlier. Pfft, and I thought hockey players were supposed to be tough.
February 12, 2000 – In a 4-3 Coyotes win over the Flames, Jeremy Roenick set a Phoenix team record by scoring his ninth game-winning goal of the season, breaking the franchise record of eight set by Keith Tkachuk in 1997-98 (who was still on the team). JR would finish the season with 12 GWG, an astounding seven more than the second place Dallas Drake.
February 12, 2003 – The Mighty Ducks set an NHL record with their 10th consecutive one-goal victory, a 4-3 OT win against the Flames, beating the record set by Ottawa in 1926-27. Coincidently, 10 of their 12 playoff wins in the first three series (losing just 2 games) game in one-goal games. They couldn’t keep up the charade in the Finals, though, as they were only able to pull out two one-goal-game wins (plus a 5-2 win), and were amazingly shutout 3-0 by Marty Brodeur and co. on three separate occasions in the seven-game Stanley Cup Finals.
Source: Hockey Hall of Fame
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